File transfer protocols usually operate on top of a lower-level protocol in a protocol stack.

Further complications arise because the original Internet e-mail standards only support 7-bit transfer protocols.

Specialized bus analyzers are also used in the mass storage industry to analyze popular data transfer protocols between computers and drives.

File transfer protocol could refer to either of the following:

Because of the transfer protocol, the Commodore 1540 and 1541 disk drives soon gained a reputation for extreme slowness.

For every , Bob transfers with the oblivious transfer protocol where and is the -th bit of .

Software that supports the basic transfer protocols, such as load and save, will not support fast loaders.

Software exists that replaces the basic transfer protocols with proprietary alternatives.

"You must command your people to cease working on the transfer protocol."

In the meanwhile, it does no harm to complete the transfer protocol.